Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & brothers, 1851 - 429 էջ |
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... persons ? Habitual inactivity both of mind and body ? That tranquil state of mind in which the agitations of anxiety and dis . appointment are no longer felt ? That state of mind which suffers no dismay from danger ? The dissolution of ...
... persons ? Habitual inactivity both of mind and body ? That tranquil state of mind in which the agitations of anxiety and dis . appointment are no longer felt ? That state of mind which suffers no dismay from danger ? The dissolution of ...
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... person is bitten by a mad , or rabid ani- mal , he expresses the same dread of water , and hence the disease is called , as I said , hydrophobia . Charles . I thank you , Henry , for giving me all this infor- mation : I shall tell it ...
... person is bitten by a mad , or rabid ani- mal , he expresses the same dread of water , and hence the disease is called , as I said , hydrophobia . Charles . I thank you , Henry , for giving me all this infor- mation : I shall tell it ...
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... persons , places , streets , mountains , lakes , rivers , ships , & c . , and adjectives derived from them , should begin with a capital letter . The first word of a quotation after a colon , or when it is in a direct form , should ...
... persons , places , streets , mountains , lakes , rivers , ships , & c . , and adjectives derived from them , should begin with a capital letter . The first word of a quotation after a colon , or when it is in a direct form , should ...
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... person . You are not to suppose that the fate either of single persons of empires or of the whole earth depends on the influence of the stars . Insert the Comma , Colon , and Semicolon where they belong in the following sentences ...
... person . You are not to suppose that the fate either of single persons of empires or of the whole earth depends on the influence of the stars . Insert the Comma , Colon , and Semicolon where they belong in the following sentences ...
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... person who . Fy , to make . Ies , science , art . Ion , ity , ment , the state or act of . Ish , some degree . Ism , doctrine , state . Ive , ic , ical , ile , ine , ing , it , ial , ent , ant , pertaining to , having the qual ity ...
... person who . Fy , to make . Ies , science , art . Ion , ity , ment , the state or act of . Ish , some degree . Ism , doctrine , state . Ive , ic , ical , ile , ine , ing , it , ial , ent , ant , pertaining to , having the qual ity ...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1847 |
Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1850 |
Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades, Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1849 |
Common terms and phrases
50 cents 75 cents accent admiration Allowable rhymes amusement ancient Anthon's Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character composition connexion delight dodo effect English English language Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure genius give Greek Greek language happiness heart honor hypermeter idea imagination influence kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary literature look manner means mind moral Muslin nation nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs Philosophical phrase pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles proper prose remark rules sense sentence Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Էջ 104 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Էջ 294 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Էջ 294 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Էջ 293 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Էջ 105 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Էջ 401 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Էջ 402 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Էջ 146 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Էջ 293 - Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Էջ 148 - And besides this, giving all diligence, ADD to your faith virtue; AND to virtue knowledge; AND to knowledge temperance; AND to temperance patience; AND to patience godliness; AND to godliness brotherly kindness; AND to brotherly kindness charity.